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The DUmpster / Re: On banning Tik Tok
« Last post by FlaGator on Today at 06:07:33 AM »Tic Tok is one of the leading causes of the stupifying of America, particularly the young people. Ban it.
Bellies are full, but the tantrums continue.
The anti-Israel Columbia University students hunkering down on the Ivy League’s West Lawn received a hefty food delivery Wednesday — as they show no signs of abandoning their makeshift tent city.
Fruits, nuts, granola bars and overpriced sandwiches were being handed out like candy to the protesters, who were given a 48-hour extension to camp out on the grounds before the administration warned it would clear them out.
The evening meal marked one week of the group’s headlining-making demonstration as similar ones have spread like wildfire to other elite campuses across the country.
FBI Director Christopher Wray: “TikTok, for us, represents a national security concern.”
In the meanwhile, this dimwit is not pushing Dementia Joe to close the border where actual terrorists walk into the U.S.
Wray's words are a bunch of baloney.
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Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe
https://nypost.com/2024/04/24/opinion/jewish-students-come-here-to-the-south-where-youll-be-safe/
OMG, how I'd love to post this on DU!
All that evil and criminality sure aged hillary.
Yet none of those are the reason that certain parts of our government want it banned.
They want it banned because unlike facebook and the like, it is beyond their control.
I'm torn. TikTok is at least collecting and feeding tons of data directly to the Chicoms, including things like location data and images from government employee phones, including when they are in secure locations with said phones that have the app installed. At worst it's a Chicom psyop, dumbing down Americans (especially da youts) and spreading misinformation. However, banning apps is not easy, and it's very debatable if the feds have the Constitutional power to even try.
However, Fed employees, especially military, should absolutely be banned from having the app on any official device, and can probably be told to leave their personal devices with the app at home, away from any government building/worksite/ect.
Should Congress be focusing more on other things? Yes they should. Is this app an issue that needs to be looked at? Yes it is, again, particularly on government devices and in government facilities.
It is simply fodder for low information people to glance at while they're stuck in a line at the checkout.
Jewish students in the Ivy League, I’m here to offer an invitation: Come to the South, where you’ll be safe.
It’s manifestly not safe to be an Ivy League Jew. A prominent Columbia rabbi “strongly” advised Jewish students to go home and not come back: It’s become clear “Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy,” Rabbi Elie Buechler told students this week over WhatsApp.
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My advice to Jewish students at these institutions: Come on down. At schools like mine, the University of Tennessee, in red states, such intimidation, harassment and lawlessness aren’t tolerated.
In my city of Knoxville, after Hamas’ Oct. 7 rape/torture/murder/kidnapping spree, we had a pro-Israel rally attended by all our major civic leaders. The allegedly elite schools had marches in support of Hamas.
In the red states, support for Israel isn’t controversial. In our allegedly elite northeastern and California universities it can get you mobbed.